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The dispersion measures (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) encode the integrated electron density along the line-of-sight, which is typically dominated by the intergalactic medium (IGM) contribution in the case of extragalactic FRBs. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Khee-Gan Lee , Metin Ata , Ilya S. Khrykin , Yuxin Huang , J. Xavier Prochaska , Jeff Cooke , Jielai Zhang , Adam Batten

Low redshift fast radio bursts (FRBs) provide robust measurements of the host-galaxy contribution to the dispersion measure (DM), which can constrain the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of the hosts. We curate a sample of 20 nearby FRBs with…

We calculate the dispersion measure (DM) contributed by the intergalactic medium (IGM) to the total measured DM for fast radio bursts (FRBs). We use the MareNostrum Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio (MICE) Onion Universe simulation (Fosalba…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 N. Pol , M. T. Lam , M. A. McLaughlin , T. J. W. Lazio , J. M. Cordes

We investigate the contribution of host galaxies to the overall Dispersion Measures (DMs) for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) using the Feedback in Realistic Environments (FIRE-2) cosmological zoom-in simulation suite. We calculate DMs from every…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-19 Matthew E. Orr , Blakesley Burkhart , Wenbin Lu , Sam B. Ponnada , Cameron B. Hummels

Approximately half of the Universe's dark matter resides in collapsed halos; significantly less than half of the baryonic matter (protons and neutrons) remains confined to halos. A small fraction of baryons are in stars and the interstellar…

The amount of detected baryons in the local Universe is at least a factor of two smaller than measured at high redshift. It is believed that a significant fraction of the baryons in the current Universe is "hiding" in a hot filamentary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Galeazzi , A. Gupta , E. Ursino

The dispersion of extragalactic fast radio bursts (FRBs) can serve as a powerful probe of the diffuse plasma between and surrounding galaxies, which contains most of the Universe's baryons. By cross-correlating the dispersion of background…

The dispersion measure (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) in conjunction with their redshifts can be used as powerful probes of the distribution of extragalactic plasma. With a large enough sample, the free-electron--galaxy power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 April Qiu Cheng , Shion Elizabeth Andrew , Haochen Wang , Kiyoshi W. Masui

The predicted abundance and properties of the low-mass substructures embedded inside larger dark matter haloes differ sharply among alternative dark matter models. Too small to host galaxies themselves, these subhaloes may still be detected…

We investigate the dispersion measure(DM) and scattering of FRBs by the intergalactic-medium(IGM), foreground and host halos, using cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. We find that the median DM caused by foreground halos is around 30\%…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-15 Weishan Zhu , Long-Long Feng

More than three quarters of the baryonic content of the Universe resides in a highly diffuse state that is difficult to observe, with only a small fraction directly observed in galaxies and galaxy clusters. Censuses of the nearby Universe…

Recently, there have been reports of six bright, dispersed bursts of coherent radio emission found in pulsar surveys with the Parkes Multi-beam Receiver. Not much is known about the progenitors of these bursts, but they are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-10 T. E. Hassall , E. F. Keane , R. P. Fender

Our understanding of the universe relies mostly on electromagnetism. As photons are the messengers, fundamental physics is concerned in testing their properties. Photon mass upper limits have been earlier set through pulsar observations,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-30 Mark J. Bentum , Luca Bonetti , Alessandro D. A. M. Spallicci

Fast radio burst (FRB) discoveries are occurring rapidly, with thousands expected from upcoming surveys. The dispersion measures (DM) observed for FRB include important information on cosmological distances and the ionization state of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-20 Mukul Bhattacharya , Pawan Kumar , Eric V. Linder

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration pulses occurring at cosmological distances that have emerged as prominent cosmological probes due to their dispersion measure (DM) evolution with redshift. In this work, we use cosmography,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-28 Jéferson A. S. Fortunato , Wiliam S. Hipólito-Ricaldi , Marcelo V. dos Santos

The joint analysis of the Dispersion and Faraday Rotation Measure from distant, polarised Fast Radio Bursts may be used to put constraints on the origin and distribution of extragalactic magnetic fields on cosmological scales. While the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-24 F. Vazza , M. Brüggen , P. M. Hinz , D. Wittor , N. Locatelli , C. Gheller

Context. High-precision pulsar-timing experiments are affected by temporal variations of the Dispersion Measure (DM), which are related to spatial variations in the interstellar electron content. Correcting for DM variations relies on the…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) provide a sensitive probe of ionized baryons through their dispersion measure (DM). In addition to slowly evolving cosmological terms, at least two repeaters now show clear secular DM-decrease episodes:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-11 Zhao Joseph Zhang , Gaku Kawashima , Shiu-Hang Lee , Kentaro Nagamine , Bing Zhang , Yusei Fujimaru

Most diffuse baryons, including the circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding galaxies and the intergalactic medium (IGM) in the cosmic web, remain unmeasured and unconstrained. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) offer an unparalleled method to measure…

Fast radio bursts offer the opportunity to place new constraints on the mass and density profile of hot and ionized gas in galactic haloes. We test here the X-ray emission and dispersion measure predicted by different gas profiles for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-03 Laura C. Keating , Ue-Li Pen